Tag: Glaciers

Denali National Park, Kahiltna Glacier near Mount McKinley, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandSome parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) t...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of Red Knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Waterfall at the Glacier Front of the Greenland Ice Sheet, near Olrik Fjord, North-West GreenlandThe Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ic...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Floating at the Edge, West-GreenlandThe Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years and contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenla...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Melting Surface in SummerThe Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years and contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenla...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Melting Surface in SummerThe Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years and contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenla...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Floating at the Edge, West-GreenlandThe Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ic...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Floating at the Edge, West-GreenlandThe Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ic...

By Peter Prokosch

Greenland Ice Sheet, Floating at the Edge, West-GreenlandThe Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ic...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandSome parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) t...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandSome parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) t...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandSome parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) t...

By Peter Prokosch

Khumbu Glacier, Sagarmatha National Park, NepalThe Khumbu Glacier is followed for the final part of the trail to Everest Base Camp and is with it's source at 7600 m the highest glacier in the world

By Wenzel Prokosch

Gorakshep, Sagarmatha National Park, NepalGorakshep, located at an altitude of 5,164 m, is the last village before the Everest base camp.

By Wenzel Prokosch

Peary Land, northernmost land in the world, GreenlandPeary Land in the North of Greenland and with Oodaaq island is the northernmost land of the world. The coastline is deeply indented by smaller fjords. Highest peak of Peary Land is Mara Mountain of Roosevelt Mountain Ran...

By Peter Prokosch

Peary Land, northernmost land in the world, GreenlandPeary Land in the North of Greenland and with Oodaaq island is the northernmost land of the world. The coastline is deeply indented by smaller fjords. Highest peak of Peary Land is Mara Mountain of Roosevelt Mountain Ran...

By Peter Prokosch

Peary Land, northernmost land in the world, GreenlandPeary Land in the North of Greenland and with Oodaaq island is the northernmost land of the world. The coastline is deeply indented by smaller fjords. Highest peak of Peary Land is Mara Mountain of Roosevelt Mountain Ran...